Welcome to the fifth week of the semester! We’re moving along, with two weeks to go before our “it’s-still-winter-but-we’ll-call-it-spring” break, and this week we’ll spend time with three exceptional historians who explore some carceral formations in the early 20th century.
We start our meeting will our weekly student-led plenary. As you read last week’s analyses to prepare for that discussion, make a special effort to bring forward the topics and ideas we didn’t get to chance to discuss the week before.
This week we’ll also read and discuss three different readings as we delve more fully into the early 20th century. The first is by one of the most talented historians in the field of Latinx studies, Miroslava Chávez-García. “Youth of Color and California’s Carceral State: The Fred C. Nelles Youth Correctional Facility” [08_ChavezGarcia.pdf] is a 2015 article that gives you a peak into her 2012 book called States of Delinquency.
The next is “Bananas North, Deportees South: Punishment, Profits, and the Human Costs of the Business of Deportation,” by immigration historian Adam Goodman [09_Goodman.pdf]. And the last is the first chapter from the book Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II, by A. Naomi Paik [10_Paik.pdf].
As usual, you’ll write your next Reading Analysis (your fourth) on the reading.
I’ll be looking forward to our discussion this week. Be safe and be well until then…